Blog Profiles: Environmental and Green Blogs

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We’re a week out from Earth Day.

While looking for good examples of environmental and green blogs, I was struck by the sheer amount of awesome content out there. It’s amazing how folks are blogging about green living. I uncovered eco-friendly office spaces, upcycled dog houses, green toys, and environmentally friendly structures and cars. Much like the food blogs I reviewed last week, here’s another category that was difficult to narrow down.

Let’s start with TreeHugger. Here’s a site simply dedicated to “driving sustainability mainstream.”

Partial to a modern aesthetic, the blogs strives to be a one-stop shop for green news, solutions, and product information.

TreeHugger has a core writing team of seven. Its managing editor is Toronto-based Lloyd Alter, who has been an “architect, developer, inventor and prefab promoter.”

I like TreeHugger because its content is wide sweeping. It covers design, technology, transportation, science, business, living, energy, and social.

The Earth Day Network Blog posts quite a bit about the massive global migration now underway that will “demand huge investments in energy, water, materials, waste, food distribution, and transportation over the next 25 years.”

According to the network, the first Earth Day took place April 22, 1970. It has since “activated 20 million Americans from all walks of life and is widely credited with launching the modern environmental movement. The passage of the landmark Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Endangered Species Act and many other groundbreaking environmental laws soon followed.”

“Sure enough, it was a bird, moving at about the speed of the vehicles around it,” Revkin wrote. “I was thinking it must be a hawk, but as I caught up with it, I could see it was a pure white dove or pigeon — at my eye level — seemingly enjoying racing another Prius.”

“Grist is a source of intelligent, irreverent environmental news and commentary that’s been around since 1999, when the internet was made of rubber bands,” it says. “We cover climate, energy, food, cities, politics, business, green living, and the occasional adorable baby animal.”

In it, a known sloth caretaker in Suriname was tapped to care for a bundle of displaced sloths from a forest clearing in Oct. 2012. What was to be a relatively small number of animals actually turned out to be a couple of hundred. Nearly all have since been returned to the wild.

Inhabitat is devoted to the “future of design, tracking the innovations in technology, practices and materials that are pushing architecture and home design towards a smarter and more sustainable future.”